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Totally irrational dislike for actors/actresses??

423 replies

AnnMeredithPerkins · 13/08/2017 19:13

What is it about certain actors/actresses that just make you dislike them for no reason at all?
I was just looking at the web and Melissa George (Home and Away, and others) and i just really don't like her. I have no idea why though? I don't dislike other female actresses?

do you dislike anyone famous for no reason?

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ChestnutsRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 13/08/2017 21:27

There are far more that I don't like than I like. However cannot watch a film with any of the following smug mcsmug faces in:

(There is a theme among the females):

Kate Winslet (simpering twat)
Kate Bosworth (botoxed expression free lollipop head)
Kate Beckinsale (horse face look at me)
Kate Zeta Jones (the US accent that was then dropped when everyone laughed for OTT I'm just a gal from Swansea- fuck off)

Male turds:

Ben affleck (himbo, otoh i love Casey and his mumbling)
Shia Labeof (shit name and what is the point? Can't act, fugly as hell)
Ryan Reynolds (what is the point, not even good looking)0
Gerard Butler (try hard shite, up himself)

Allgirlskidsanddogs · 13/08/2017 21:27

Joanna Lumley, known (ironiclly) as Joanna Lovely, erghhhhh!
Roman Atkinson, his elastic wrinkled face.
I'm sure their good people, but they leave me cold.

sakura06 · 13/08/2017 21:27

I used to love Melissa George and Dieter Brummer on Home and Away! I had their posters on my bedroom wall.

James Nesbitt usually annoys me. I didn't mind him in The Hobbit films though.

SnowWhite33 · 13/08/2017 21:28

Russell Crowe, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

There is no rational reason, they sure are very good actors. But there is something about them that irritates me. Tom Cruise gives me the creeps actually.

Goldenbear · 13/08/2017 21:30

Emma Watson I believe is like that, considering she is English - yes, she is fairly posh. Oh well.

pleasemindthegap · 13/08/2017 21:30

Disagree about James McAvoy. Agree re Keira ! Smile

ScrambledSmegs · 13/08/2017 21:32

Mel Gibson. Have always had an aversion to him, long before he was a well-known arsehole. Genuinely no idea why.

DH thinks it might be a weird instinct thing because I also had a similar aversion to Casey Affleck, before it came out that he was a rapey bastard. However I have managed to sit through a film or two with him in whereas I can't sit through Mel's, no way.

IloveBanff · 13/08/2017 21:35

Brace yourselves, because she's apparently a national treasure, but I can't stand Julie Walters. Nicole Kidman gives me the creeps, she doesn't even seem human to me. Keira Knightley just comes across as thick as a brick.

ChocolateDinosaur · 13/08/2017 21:36

Amanda Holden and Ferne Cotton. If I could reach in the tv and slap them silly....

TheBeaconsAreLit · 13/08/2017 21:38

Ahhh I've found my Adam-Sandler-hating people!
It's just his face. Makes me want to kick things.

flownthecoopkiwi · 13/08/2017 21:40

Leave David Tennant's nostrils alone, he's lovely.

Hate Tom hanks.

dollypoodle · 13/08/2017 21:40

Sophie Okonedo - can't watch her. She's hugely overrated.
David Walliams - seems so creepy and sleazy.

Hygge · 13/08/2017 21:41

Someone mentioned The Hobbit films. I love them, but I do not like Martin Freeman. Not one bit. I was so disappointed when I found out he would be starting in the films.

Flatpackback · 13/08/2017 21:43

Nicole Kidman. I know I'm clearly in a minority here since she is a mega star but I think she's a hopeless actor. I've yet to see her in any role that is convincing.

OxfordshireLass · 13/08/2017 21:43

Welsh, I'm definitely in agreement with you when it comes to Tom Hanks.

The more that I think about this, the more that I can add:

Joey Essex (not an actor I know, but I have no time for a man who made a career out of appearing thick)
Gwynneth Paltrow
Kevin McKidd - just doesn't do it for me
Harrison Ford

HereBeFuckery · 13/08/2017 21:44

So pleased there are other Bill Murray dislikers around! I always say him and get horrified 'but Ghostbusters!' responses. He is dull, tedious, can't act, and the fucking bullshit about 'I live a reclusive lifestyle' - well, that's fine love, but don't be an actor then. Plus, wait... NO ONE CARES.

Also have to nominate Tamzin Outhwaite - her name is OOOOOUUUUUTHWAITE between my best mate and me, as we share our irrational dislike. Only slightly mitigated by finding out that her ex husband was a total shit to her. I still think she has that hard-faced, weaselly look about her.

ThongofJustine · 13/08/2017 21:47

See Emilia fox hasn't been mentioned - please tell me I'm not alone in my hatred of her as an actress, she ruined silent witness for me. Can't watch anything she's in as gives me the rage

Yy to Keira knightly and suranne jones and Amanda Holden

Man hate vote goes to will Ferrell

GinIsIn · 13/08/2017 21:48

Ricky Gervais

Hygge · 13/08/2017 21:54

Oh, and Catherine Tate. I have never liked her and she ruined Doctor Who long before the most recent series's.

Amanduh · 13/08/2017 21:54

Keeley Hawes. Amanda Holden. Kelly Brook. Olly Murs. James Martin. I'm sure they all think highly of me too Grin

TealStar · 13/08/2017 21:55

Angelina, Nicole, Kate Beckinsale, Liz Hurley, Amanda Holden: all women of a certain age who have had varying degrees of cosmetic surgery, some more natural that others, and all seem to think they can con the world into believeing they are natural beauties. I actually find their looks to be quite disturbing, esp. those of Nicole and Angelina . You ain't fooling me ladies.

KIera Knightly and Andie McDowell: I just can't watch anything they are in.

Tom Cruise: just... ghastly. Jude Law: insufferably smug wankbadger.

Amanduh · 13/08/2017 21:55

Oh and Ferne Cotton

tobee · 13/08/2017 21:55

Kenneth Branagh. It's not up to you to decide your the next Olivier. For starters.

Yy to Thandie Newton. Especially in ER. "Ooh, I'm so tiny and beautiful!"

YellowFlower201 · 13/08/2017 21:55

Russell Crowe - Just no!!

Revenant · 13/08/2017 21:57

Kevin costner
Leonardo di caprio
Jude law